Illinois senator and possible presidential contender Barack Obama visits The Tonight Show on Friday.... Perhaps as soon as Dec. 7, the NFL Network will begin offering live webcasts of its Thursday and Saturday telecasts to Verizon FiOS and DirecTV subscribers with Verizon broadband hookups.... A&E has greenlit a 20-episode second season of Gene Simmons Family Jewels.... Sofia Coppola and boyfriend Thomas Mars welcomed their first child together, a girl named Romy, on Tuesday.... Celine Dion has canceled five performances of her Las Vegas show, as well as an appearance at Monday's Billboard Music Awards, due to a highly contagious respiratory infection. Mycoplasma bronchitis rocks.... Ice Age: The Meltdown topped the DVD sales and rental charts last week, unseating The Da Vinci Code in both instances.
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Homer, The Simpsons
The many who went to see Ice Age: The Meltdown this weekend were treated to a 20-second teaser for the long-rumored feature take on The Simpsons. The trailer, which opens on a Superman-like "S" logo — only to reveal it's part of Homer's undershirt tag — and touts a July 27, 2007, release, "is running on 7,000 screens, committing us to opening every place in the world on the same date," exec producer James L. Brooks tells Variety. "Which means, we'd better get started." As for the top-secret story line, Mike Scully, who is penning the film with Simpsons creator Matt Groening, says, "We've taken script security to the point of lunacy, though it helped that we wrote it in Aramaic."
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